American Revolution Lecture Series:
Tom Chaffin, Award-Winning Author and Historian
Revolutionary Brothers: Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations
Presented by the North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati
Thursday, February 22, 2024, 7 p.m.
Daniels Auditorium at the North Carolina Museum of History
$15 per person; $10 for MOHA/museum members (plus taxes and processing fees)
For information, call 919-814-7031. Register here.
The North Carolina Society of the Cincinnati will handle registration for its members. For information, call 919-301-8815.
Speaker: Tom Chaffin, Award-Winning Author and Historian
Steeped in primary sources, Revolutionary Brothers casts fresh light on the remarkable, often complicated, friendship between two extraordinary men. Join us as author Tom Chaffin explores the intimate bond linking Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette, and how over the course of four decades, their friendship played a key role in the making of two revolutions—and two nations. A book signing will follow the presentation.
Award-winning author and historian Tom Chaffin has taught US history and writing at various universities, and his articles, reviews, and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Time, Harper’s Magazine, The Nation, Oxford American, and other publications. He was a frequent contributor to the New York Times’ acclaimed “Disunion” series on the American Civil War.
Chaffin’s other books include Odyssey: Young Charles Darwin, the Beagle, and the Voyage that Changed the World; Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire; Sea of Gray: The Around-the-World Odyssey of the Confederate Raider Shenandoah; The H. L. Hunley: The Secret Hope of the Confederacy; and Giant’s Causeway: Frederick Douglass’s Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary.
